2002 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election
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The 2002 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election were the 1st Vidhan Sabha (Legislative Assembly) elections of the state of Uttarakhand in India, when the Indian National Congress emerged as the largest party with 36 seats in the 70-seat legislature in the election. The Bharatiya Janata Party became the official opposition, holding 19 seats.
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Results
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| Rank | Party | Seats Contested | Seats Won | % Votes | % Votes in Seats Contested |
Leader in the House | |
| 1 | Indian National Congress (INC) | 70 | 36 | 26.91% | 26.91% | Narayan Datt Tiwari | |
| 2 | Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) | 69 | 19 | 25.45% | 25.81% | Matbar Singh Kandari | |
| 3 | Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) | 68 | 07 | 10.93% | 11.20% | Narayan Pal | |
| 4 | Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (UKD) | 62 | 04 | 5.49% | 6.36% | Kashi Singh Airy | |
| 5 | Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) | 26 | 01 | 1.50% | 4.02% | Balvir Singh Negi | |
| 6 | Independents | – | 03 | 16.30% | 16.63% | N/A | |
| Total | – | 70 | – | – | |||
List of elected Assembly members
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edit- ^ "प्रथम विधान सभा: विधान सभा". ukvidhansabha.uk.gov.in (in Hindi). Archived from the original on 21 April 2014. Retrieved 8 July 2021.